[lit-ideas] Re: Argumentum Ornithologicum
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:27:23 EDT
In a message dated 7/2/2009 5:17:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:
There is no indefinite number of countable things. 'I'm not sure how
many birds I saw,' does not entail 'The birds in that particular
space-time slice could never be counted.' Counting is a mostly human
activity. Birds and numbers are what they are independently of this.
---
I see.
Yes, the example is confusing because he _was_ blind, so what is he
talking about "I saw". I mean, visible things are difficult enough to have to
dwell on a blind man's vivid imagination.
So suppose Trogge sees a flock of seagulls (he lives in Hamburg). He
actually _heard_ them, too. They were _laughing_ sea-gulls:
ha ha hahha haa haa hha
He reasoned:
"I saw, let's say, no more than ten, and more than one or two -- but which
number, _escapes_ me". Surely we would feel affronted if he were to
conclude from that that God _exists_. I would take that with Geary as yet
another
proof that Geary does NOT exist.
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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